A SUMMER IDYL.' VERY SLY. death and burial IN MOSCOW- 18-INCH FOOT. to sniff the air. His ears are point­ The evening papers here are hard­ I d Moscow, as in other parts of ed straight ahead, his eyes grow ly as honest in the matter of num Hee the frojj, the slimy, green frog, Russia, dissenters are met with, and A I’nirof Bl* Feet—A Girl Ne,,s Dozing away on that old rotten log; larger and take on a frightened look bering their editions as their Ameri­ Seriously wondering and he half wheels as if he would can contemporaries. No London How » Diamond Smuggler Trlekeil New among them we have the Old Be­ Ohio. Whoa« Kxlreiuitle. ,lr. What caused the sundering ly Dovrlopod. ' York C’uHtolu«llouse Ex|>erl*--I‘l««»or* re­ purpose to see the wonderful ’ The state cf his clothe« Won’t he raise hie voice to it* highest pitch! and bough is as still as if made of own,” or words to that effect. It is rope. Another man was to keep him main among the living for more which would, under ordinan iron. There is a silence which weighs j but justice to say that the good company on the steamer and watcn than twenty four hours. The coffin cnmstances, be a very indelicad, Well, I should smile—a snickering smile, like a heavy burden, and the harsh man used the word “dime” whhre him closely all the voyage over. This was made of thin boards, but cover ceeding. It. seems strange and J His anguish will circulate aver a mile; note of hawk or buzzard would bo a 1 the blank is in the alxive extract. clever smuggler wore a thick, black ed with silk velvet, having Hall unusual in a young man t< And tho next slimy frog But the remark is the key note to relief. He perceives on a log beard and whiskers, and it was more marked silver handles, aud “coffin 200 miles to see a pair of fJ" Will be given a rest in magnificent style. Here is the bend. The valley con­ the situation. The time has iieen than suspected that he carried his furniture” costing over 1.000 rubles those belonging to a woman '' — [Donald Pullman, in Courier-Journul. tinues as before—no wider—no nar­ when a child with a will of its own precious freight concealed in them. (£100;) and iu the hands of the Fannie Mills is twenty two, rower—level and unbroken. The has been looked upon by the whole One morning not long ago the au­ corpse was placed a small painting old, and resides on the dairy FINDING THE TRAIL. wild horse was out of sight long ago, neighborhood as a terror, and moth­ thorities on this side received a dis­ of the Virgin havirg a silver frame her father, George Mills, two; Here in the shadow of this grim and the six troopers see nothing but ers have sighed aud endured sorrow patch from their Hamburg agent, and covering, costing another £100, from Sandusky. The family a,, mountain is a camp of cavalry—300 the green grass as their eyes sweep when they have noticed the spirit which read: “R. has shaved his and which became the property of glish, and emigrated to this coi shown by such a child. But when men in faded and ragged blue uni­ the valley from side to side. l>eard. Did not know it until he had the church where the funeral prayers eleven years ago. The father is, “Turn the bend and ride down they, in later years, have looked sailed five days. He is on the Ryn- were recited at burial. The body to-do. and makes a good livingI forms, every face sunburned and around and seen that the most suc ­ bronzed, every sabre and carbine the valley for a mile or so and keep land. He has got seventy large dia­ was dressed as a bride—she had be­ the sale of milk. Mrs. Miffi showing long use. every horse lift your eyes open to discover any pass cessful men and wotnen of tho land monds on his person.” As soon as come the pride of heaven; and these small, keen looking woman « grew up from children that had wills ing its head from the grass at short leading out.” of their own, the sadness and sor­ the Rhynland was sighted, six cus­ robes aud the dressing involved, the pleasing face. There are tive'ebii “Halt!” intervals for a swift glance up and row of the mother has given place to tom-house officers steamed down the first £200 aud the latter £100. First, besides the unfortunate Fan/ It is more than a mile beyond the down the valley. pride. We do not like to see chil­ bay ami intercepted her. Circulating she was dressed in a fine linen che- of whom are healthy and goodi bend. No pass has been discovered. Here, at the foot of the mountain, passengers, they ------- o the , ------- „ . looked in mise trimmed with costly lace; over ing. The deformed girl, for bn dren have wills of their own that are among No signs of a trail have been picked the Apache trail, which has been fol­ all directions for the now beardless ^is a chemisette, and then a short are very imperfect, is afficted so strong that they cannot be con ­ lowed for three days, has grown cold. np. The sergeant has raised himself aud shaven man. Just as they were tnnjcjn white satin, embroidered with elephantiasis from the hips t; Aye, it has been lost. It is as if the up for a long and careful scrutiny, trolled by parents, but few. children about to give up the search a stran- and silver thread, called a sara- ankle. Her head, shoulden who have tho right kind of parents white mon bad followed a path which when an exclamation causes him to ger sought a confidential con versa- y(t)1 Then the head-dress was the bust are normal, although -i suddenly ended at a precipice. From turn his face up the valley. Out have such wills. Take a child with a tion with them.------------------------------- . usual Russiau hat with pearls. But slightly built. Fannie has#, this point the red demons took wings, from the fringe ride the demons will of its own, anil guide that will “You are custom house officers, and the greatest expenses were incurred but interesting face. Herdart; who have been lurking there to drink properly, and not knock the backbone you lp°k for Rosenberg wita the dia-, and the oldest trailer is at fault. prayers and masses. In forty eves possess considerable expm out of it with a barrel stave, and the blood. Five — ten — twenty — fifty — The men on picket looked up mid monds.” churches of the city of Moscow pray­ and there is a sad look upon child will grow up to be a success in the line has no end. It stretches down the narrow valley with anxious “We are and we do.” ers were ordered to be said for her, countenance which shows tine faces. Down the valley, a mile away, clear across the valley before a word business. Children with wills of “That is Rosenberg, and the dia­ morning and evening, for forty days, fully appreciates her deploral,i their own may turn out to be pirates has been spoken. Then it faces to a solitary wild horse paws and pran­ monds are sewed in tho lining of his for which 16,000 rubies were charged, dition. ces and utters shrill neighs of won­ the right and 200 Indians in war or highway robbers but it will be necktie."’ of at the rate of 10s. per service— Your correspondent called, a because parents try to break that derment and alarm. Up the valley paint face the grim old sergeant and In another minute a pale, smooth­ £1,600 being paid for 3,200 services; Mills home, which is an attra will by severe punishment. They is a long stretch of green grass, the his five troopers. faced, callow gentleman was strug ­ and at each service some one attend­ two story frame cottage, laster« may partially break it, but it will “Into line—right dress!” earth as level as a floor and no visible gling in the hands of the officers. It is the sergeant who whispers the assert itself sometime in the wrong His scarf was unceremoniously taken ed and distributed bread and alms to and the head of the household sign of life. The pines and shrubs the poor, the bread being to each standing in the yard. His and rocks on the mountain side might order. Six to 200, but he will face way, while if it is guided properly from his neck and carefully explored portion a oalatch, something more was kindly, and lie entered intel the will may be a mountain of the danger. To retreat down the hide ten thousand Indians, but there with a sharp penknife. Sure enough, than a penny loaf. Such loaves vernation on the subject of hisda is not the slightest movement to valley is to be overtaken one by one strength. The successful men in all twenty diamonds of various sizes re­ were also sent for forty davs to all the tor’s big feet. He laughiatj branches of business are men who and shot from the saddle or reserved arouse suspicion. It is a still, hot warded the seekers after contraband prisoners in Moscow. For several marked that people didn’t belie« day. Not a bird chirps, not a branch for torture. Down the valley there had ‘"wills of their own” in yeuth. goods. His trunk was next rum­ days iu the bazaars the bakers were They were not pet children who never seemingly incredible stories i waves. The eye of a lynx could de­ is no hope; up the valley 16 the camp said their souls were their own. maged and every necktie subjected authorized to distribute bread to all corning Fannie’s immense pedii tect nothing beyond the erratic move­ and rescue. The two lines face each Such childien become milliners or to equal scrutiny? When the officers poor people applying who asked for tremities, but to prove that thu ments of the lone wild horse adown other for a moment without a move­ dudes. The successful men look had finished their work no iess than it in the name of the dead girl and really’ so large, he invited the wcj the valley and the circular Hight of ment. seventy-three diamonds of great lus­ “Now, men, one volley—sling car with pride upon their children whd ter had been discovered. The poor engaged to pray for her. But even into the house to Bee for himself] an eagle so high in air that the proud this did not suffice. To other cities young woman was called by have wills of their own, because they bird seemed no larger than a spar bines—draw sabres and charge!” fellow wept and wrung his hands as A sheet of fiame—a roar—a cloud know by experience that such a will he saw the captors of his property of Russia, and also to cities such as father, and wabbled rather I row. Y’ienna, I’esth, Athens, where church­ walked into the front room.! is worth millions in the battle of life. For an hour every man and horse of smoke, and the six horses spring carry off his precious gems. Imper­ es of the sect exist, money’ was sent has looked for “signs,” but nothing forward. Then there is a grand A man who had no mind of his own fectly comforted by the reflection and prayers ordered to be said for wore a long gown, which wassN as a boy, may be good enough to has been discovered beyond wliut has yell, a rush by every horse and rider, carry shawls to a matinee, or baskets that he had been allowed to retain his forty days. The funeral took place sufficient to hide the deformity sat down in a chair and eipo^ been described. It is a lost trail. and a whirlpool begins to circle. to a picnic, or he may stand on a liberty, he proceeded to the Metro in the church of the well-known feet to view. It is almost impoa There is something, in it to arouse Sabres Hash and clang—arrows whis corner and chew a cane, but he could politan Hotel, and engaging a room, suspicion as well as annoyance. Ten tie—-revolvers pop—voices shout and not build a railroad through a wil­ almost immediately took a bath. Holy Cemetery of Ragoshka, where to exaggerate the marvellous sj miles away the trail was as plain as a scream, and then the whirlpool derness or across a mountain, and When the Custom-house officers ar­ only Old Believers are buried, and She removed her shoes, and I aountry highway, and the Indians ceaees. It is not throe minutes since rather than face a picnic he would rived at headquarters the chief, who where a wooden building was put great white pillow cases, which i had no suspicion of pursuit. Five the first carbine was fired, but the sit down and cry. He could not in­ held a cablegram in his hand, eager up capable of dining 150 guests—the worn as stockings. leading members of the Beet around The feet look like two imm<® miles back there were signs of com tragedy has ended. Every trooper vent anything, unless it was a patent ly inquired: Moscow. The dinner was served hands. The toes are irregular,] motion. Here, in the center of the is down aud scalped, half a dozen corset or a self fastening hair-pin, “Did you get Rosenberg?" from the leading hotel iu Moscow, at the little toes are represented bjj redskins are dead or dying, a dozen valley, every footprint disappears. “Yes, sir.” while his brother, who had a will of a cost of about 16s. per person, to little nobs. There are no tael Look, now! A sergeant with griz horses are struggling or staggering, bis own, would invent a telephone “Wnere were the stones?” which the expense of the fruit and zly locks and fighting jaw rides down and turning the bend at a mad gallop or a locomotive. The child with a “Sewed in the linings of his neck . wine had to be added, the fruit in although the place where theysii be is clearly defined. Yom X tho valley followed by five troopers. is the sergeant's riderless horse. He will of his own may be harder to ties.” Russia in early Spring costing fabu- They are to scout for tho lost trail. carries an arrow in his shoulder, and raise, and he may cause some heart­ "That’s rather strange,” remarked i lous prices. It is calculated by some i spondent undertook the delicate) ] of measuring the huge raa-a Every man has unslung his carbine, there is blood on the saddle. In five aches and anxiety, but when that the chief. of the most intimate friends of the ; fiesh called feet. The right fij every saddle girth has been tight­ minutes he will be in camp, and the will which was so hard to han­ “Here’s a Hamburg dispatch which family known to the writer that a one foot six inches in length, aJ ened, and every man of tho six looks notes of the bugle will prove that the dle iu youth, gets hold of a says. ‘Just learned that R. carried I sum of not less than £10,000 was left one inch shorter. Over 'J over the camp as he rides out as if lost trail has been found. back and the diamonds between his difficult problem of business in later spent over the ceremony; and none step of the right foot is tweiilj ho had been told that he was bidding years, and clinches itself around the and a porous plaster.” LONDON NEWSPAPER CASTS. i of the co-religionists look uoon this inches, and oveh the other one! a last farewell to comrades. They “ Here are the diamonds, anyhow," problem, and begins to squeeze, it at all extravagant.—Chamber’s less. The big toe of the left« ride at a slow gallop. Each man A newspaper cart is a light affair will never let up until success is said the leader of the raid; “and we as Journal. eleven inches in circumference] casts swift glances along the moun­ on two wheels—naturally a cart can­ achieved. The stubborn, “Be sure found ’em just as we tell you, in the ] right foot is longer than the -1 tain side to his left—at the green not be upon four—with one reckless you are right and then go ahead" lining of his neckties.” “W e had captured a 100-barrel i an inch, but the latter is heavinj grass under his horse’s feet. driver and a man to deal out papers, boys are in demand, and are worth The chief looked at the confiscated \\ hat's that! Afar up the slope to They rush along with all the head their weight in gold, while the milk gems. Then he rang his little bell whale, and after the head was split thicker. The feet are resptfl the right something waves to and fro long speed of the American butcher and water, “baby-mine” fellows have and said; “Send me Smith, the open I was detailed to dip out the seven and eight inches wide. I oil. “It’s just like going into a big i I this actual measurement of Fl for a moment. Higher up the signal cart, and the rivalry among them is to be done up m bunches like rad­ jewel expert, here, if you please.” bath tub, and a man stands almost! , Mills’s feet one can readily »1 is answered. Across the valley on something lively. Of course the first ishes, and got rid of in a lump, and Mr. Smith came, examined the dia to his armpits in oil. I was wading what marvellously large shod the other slope it is answered again. paper on the ground is the one that half of them turn out to be pithy and monds, shrugged his shoulders, and Down the valley, a full two miles be­ gets the cream of the trade. Prob no good. If you, good mother, have said, laconically, “Paste, but first- about in the monster's head, when I I must wear. Heretofore they I yond where tho wild horse now stands ably the handsomest carts are those a child with a will of its own. don’t class.” Three frantic Custom-House was suddenly started by seeing the j been manufactured in Albany ! like a figure of stone, and where tho of the Globe and the Pall Mall Ga­ worry about the child, but thank officers spent the afternoon tracing surface of the oil burst into a blaze, I but a Sandusky shoe firm has til valley sweeps to the right like the zette. The former has a raised hem Clod anil bend the will by kiudness. Mr. Rosenburg. As soon as they had caused, as I afterward learned, by ' and a pair of shoes on exiu! sudden turn of a river, the signal is ¡sphere on each side, typical of the and when that child grows np and discovered that he had gone to the one of the crew accidentally drop­ which have attracted great atei caught up and 200 Apaches, eager, name; the latter's carts are oak col­ succeeds where others fail, write us Metropolitan Hotel, they dashed ping a box of burning matches. The ] Her feet have increased in sill excited and mounted, draw back into ored, with the title of the paper on a postal card. All of the successful there as fast as two fresh horses only’ thing to do was to dive under the last display in the shoe! I the fringe at the base of the moun­ each Bide and on the ends. The Echo men in the country had wills of their could -carry them. Without a word the oil, and I did it, with my sheath window was made. The left shoe is sixteen anil tain and wait. carts are ugly and very serviceable. own, and that was all the capital of ceremony they burst into his knife in my teeth. I turned my head after I got beneath, and made a des­ i inches long, the right eighteen! Tho little band gallop straight Just before an edition comes out they had. When we see a child with apartments. perate effort to dig a hole large in length. The left seven ami down upon the lono horse. Now these carts can be seen in a row be­ a will of its owd , we always want to “What do yon want?” he inquired, enough to thrust my head through j inches wide, and the other I they are only half a mile away, and fore their respective printing offices, take it one side and tell it the good and then, by a mighty effort, escaped inches. The right instep of “1 his breath comes quick and hie nos­ each paper having about a dozen. news, that the will is more valuable with well simulated apprehension. For answer they threw him en his into the sea. It was a pretty tight | measures nineteen and a qt®! trils quiver as he stands and stares at When the edition is published the than a rich relative. face and made a frantic exploration squeeze. I can tell you, and my body ches, the left seventeen anlj the strange spectacle. A little nearer carte are filled in a twinkling with of that particular portion of his back was so warm that it made the water inches. Fannie Mills wew and his muscles twitch ¡and quiver paper in quires—twenty six to the PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY. which had borne a porous plaster. siss all around me. The captain of pounds, and, although delicat'l and his sharp pointed ears work quire—and small bundles wrapped Alas, he had taken his bath and the the vessel thought I had been burned ing, says she has good he«.'! None but de po’ despise de rich. faster. Only eighty rods now, and up in contents bills. The latest con­ plaster had vanished, but where it had with a fierce snort of alarm and de tents bills are pasted on the backs of Dar’s one great disadvantage dat been, mixed with the impression of to death, and when I swam to the i takes two calf hides to tuabl side of the vessel he was so frighten­ a pair of shoes, and all herd fiance he roars up, whirls about like the carts and away they all go as de right black ’oman labors un’er. the little round preparations of plas­ ed that he told me that was onlv one goes to sustain her massiw] a top, and is off down the valley like speedily as if one of Arabi.s bombs She can't blush. ter. were distinct imprints of seventy- thing that prevented him from turn­ : and feet. The girl had aid an arrow sent by a strong hand. fell among them. They dash through It ain’t de quicken’ motion man Ever since, no ing gray in a night.” i large feet when she was bed The sight uiBy thrill, but it does London «treeta with therollickv reck dat's got de mos' energy. De hoss- large diamonds. "What was that?” asked the listen- they have continued to gro<■ not increase the pace of those who leanness of a tire engine and soon fly can zip aroun' faster den de plaster-wearing persons are allowed ingly fast ever since. Severs.® follow. The men see the wild scatter to all points of the compass. honey bee, but he doan’ las’ nigh so to land on that portion of American er. soil which is protected by the Custom- .. "He was bald-headed,” said the nau­ have been made to induce Mil horse fleeing before them, but the The bundles are thing in at the doors long. House officers of New York. tical "Cop."-4Phil. Press. to permit his daughter to • sight does not hold their eyes more of tho news agents as tho carts hurry Ebon among de animals a kind herself throughout the coutd than a second. To the right—to tile by without stopping. At the street Atlanta Constitution: “The New be has steadfastly refused, xd left—above them—down the valley— corners they pause and the news­ ack is recollected longer den a mean YVnv H e M arried H er .—“I hear one. A dog may forgit a place whar they are looking for a hoof print, boys gather around, handing in all that you have married an Indian York editors are quarreling over each she was in Cleveland and vied for a trampled spot, for a broken the former editions that are unsold, somebody kicked him, but he neber woman ?” said a state official to other's mistakes in grammar. A thousands of persons on the-'J forgita de place whar somebody twig- for a sign however insignifi­ together with cash for as many more grammatical error is horrible of of July two years ago. Thed black Jack. cant to prove that men have passed as they wish to buy. The papers are gin him a piece ob meat course, but the editor who makes his the malformation is said : B “Yes. sah. tuck a Ingun.” De evil in a man's face is plainer that way. They find nothing. The dealt with great celerity by the man “Couldn’t yen find a colored worn meaning clear is alwav ahead of from the fact that before I’wd grammar.” signals tin the mountain side were in the cart, who has a trick of hold­ den de good. We sometimes see a an good enough for you born Mr. Mills compelled hie^ visible only for seconds. ing the sheets in a peculiar way in glass fillet! wid water so clear dat wash the swelled leg of a herd “Oh. yes sah. De trouble was da After the first wild burst of speed his left hand, while ho runs his right it looks like dar ain’t nnth'n' thar. was too good. I'se had a mighty . "Piat 18 ..the n3e!'ning of the word much to her horror and disgi-d but put muddy water in de same the lone horse looks l»ack. He sees across the edges thus exposed, count asked the teacher. young lady is without donbtd heap of trouble wid my black wives, tantalizing. that he is not being pushed, and he ing them accurately with tho speed glass an’ it's mighty plain. „ Pt ---------------- an’ I was al'ays in de ’vorce court, so 1 lease, marm,” spoke up little curiosity—her feet a marvewod recovers conri ■ago. Ho no longer of lightning. The amount of cash, De pusaon what tries ter make I 'eluded ter try dis ’oman. and 'sides Johnny Holcom. “it means f circus of nature.—¡Cincinnati Enqo-d lino, but he sweeps generally tendered in pennies, seems more money den his neighbors will dat yer know, dar aint Finch law procession passing the school-house, runs in 1 a straight atraif “It is considered a di»gr*d away t_ __ _ left—swerves away to to be almost instinctively got at by always fine somabody what hab got agin killin' a Ingnn, nohow." to the and the scholars not allowed to look Hindoo girl not to be married the right and changes his gait for a hefting them in his hand. The a leetle more money den he has. I she is eleven or twelve yeNd trot When he hears the shouts of round has to I m » made within a cor don't keer how fas' a man walks All the difference there ¡! ■ pursuit and the louder thump of tain time, and the carts have to be along de road he'll constantly see “Harriet Beecher Stowe, is only “Jane, what letter in the alphabet the alphabet customs of the Hindoos »d noof Iwata he will straighten away back before the next edition is due. somebody jes' ahead ob him. seventy-one years old.” A id Mrs. uo you like best?” in “ Wei ’ T ’ “M ell. I don't People of this country. ;s ,:d and show the pursuers a gait which and the cash and returns handed in Stowe is the author of "Uncle Tom.” like to say. Mr. Snobbs." “It seems to me," said a quiet old It seems as though the play of nonsense! tell right ’■ out. "Pooh, American girl is given a lim'd equal Iwfore nothing but a whirlwind can equal. liefore another lot is brought out. Jane— Ixxik! It is only a quarter of a On the last round they colic ..!_„ ' gentleman, "that this whisky bnsi “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has been on which lect the do yon like best? best’ ” " “Well" time, but at the age of t’»d »meu uo or thirty she feels the disc’d mile now to the turn in the valley, cash and the returner! papers from ness makes a great deal of noise for the boards of this country for at her eyes. “I llke a “still’ business.” as keenly as a Hindoo gin ■ The lone horse has suddenly stopped j the news agents. least two hundred years. [Peck’s Sun.